Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-09
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

| est in the motto: While there s LIE
there's soap.
The Gulf stream has velocity of
FIVE miles, and is fifty miles wide at its
narrowest place.
There is negro preacher at Craw-
ford, Ca, who has no legs, being
hauled around town in a wagon by two
goats.
Orchard Hill, Ga, has a peach or
chard of seven hundred and ninety
acres and comprising eighty-four thou
sand trees.
-Rees Willer, native of Wales,
now living in Wilkesbarre, Pa, is said
to be only thirty-six inches in height
and fifty eight pounds in weight. He
is thirty-four years old.
In garden at Woodland, Cal, is
growing a clump of wheat which is a
curiosity because of the fact that one
hundred and sixty-one stalks have
spread from one kernel of wheat
Inequality in the pupils of the eyes
has been taken as symptom of illness.
but in one hundred and thirty-four
healthy persons Russian physician
has found only twelve with right and
left pupils Of equal size.
The counter-irritant is the woman
who sails into dry goods store with
out thinking of buying and wants to
see all the new goods just about the
| time her favorite clerk wants to 60 to
his lunch.-N. o. Picay1ne.
The Italians have a game called
"pallone," which is played with
big, light ball and heavy gloves; and
the Southern Germans play game
called 'kegelspiel," something like
skittles, and are also fond of target
shooting and wrestling. Chicago Nea0s.
Sometimes man gives most ex-
pressive definition Of thing without
perceiving himself the full significance
of his words. 1t was so with poor
old colored man who came to Wayland
Seminary, saying that no one had been
to his part of the country to widen
out the colored people," and SO he had
come to the seminary for help Gospel
Age.
A Boston newsdealer on Sunday
sits outside his closed doors surrounded
by full stock of Sunday newspapers.
Asked what he meant, he said:
.Keepin' within the law" So he was.
By locking the door of his shop and
closing the shutters the law was COM
piled with according to the interpreta-
ton of those who have the enforcement
of it.
Statistics show that England loses
nearly four millions of dollars every
year by the depredations of sparrows.
AS pets these birds are decided fail
ures, but as pests they are marked
success. There are innumerable hordes
of them in this country, all of which
are descended from batch of thirteen,
let loose some years ago in the parks Of
Philadelphia.
California must literally be the
land flowing with honey, if not with
milk, for an apiarist in the southern
part of the State who failed to get
even two and half cents per pound
for fine white sage extracted honey is
reported to have begun feeding it to
his swine! Another, who has large
stock without commercial value, mixes.
it with his cows feed.
Many years ago party of young
pioneers were smoking their evening
pipes in cabin in the then far West,
when one of them, addressing feeble
minded protege, said: 'Joe, 60 over
to Mr.. Robinson's and tell him, dang
him, to send back my axe" Joe re-
turned in half an hour and plaintively
made inquiry: '.Mr. Smith, you told
me to 90 to Mr.. Robinson and tell him,
dang him-Whatp
As a means of producing an artifi-
cial sea atmosphere in houses. the use
has been suggested of solution of
peroxide of hydrogen, containing one
per cent. of ozonic ether, iodine to
saturation, and $50 per cent. of sea
water. The solution, placed in a steam
or hand spray diffuser, can be diffused
in the finest of spray in a room at the
rate of two fluid ounces in quarter OF
an hour, and is said to be a good puri-;
fer and a powerful disinfectant.
Range riders in Bear Lake County,
Eastern Idaho, state that cattle, espe-
cially calves and colts born on the
range near the timber line in the west
mountains, are being destroyed by the
large gray timber wolves, that come
from their lair and carry them off.
Large packs of them are seen and they
are very bold and determined. 1t is .
species of wolf that is stranger to the
locality and seems to have emigrated
there last Chicago Times. lf
"A firm of Birmingham music deal
ers was lately required to tune an or
gan to accord with piano in Moseley.
1t was impracticable to bring the in.
struments together, but a happy plan
was at length stumbled upon. A note
of the piano was struck in front of tel
ephone, and the sound was SO accu-